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Published: November 14, 2006, University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections

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Topics include importation of cows from Canada and
over-production of milk; soil bank bill in Congress; Boston milk formula and
the price of milk; milk promotion to middle aged women; price of grain;
proposed forestry provisions to plant poorer land with trees in new farm
bill in Congress; lack of incentive for big diary companies to increase the
sale of fluid milk; minimum support prices under manufacturing milk; "Dairy
Farmers of America"; Vermont dairy cooperatives; milk vending machine
legislation in New York; congratulatory letter to Elmer Montgomery for
receiving the Distinguished Farmer Award for 1955; request of New England
cooperatives for a suspension of the 22 cent drop in milk; school milk and
Brucellosis eradication programs; use of lime and superphosphate; tax
benefits for farmers; Federal tax on gasoline used for agricultural
purposes; St. Lawrence Seaway; farmer eligibility for Social Security
benefits; marketing of farm products in foreign countries; Watershed Act of
1954; Water Facilities Act of 1954; farm production and marketing methods
research; support price for feed grains; bulk tanks; proposals to expand New
York marketing area to include major upstate cities and provide for
regulation by federal order for northern New Jersey; Scoffield case and an
injunction prohibiting the Secretary of Agriculture from extending the milk
order; use of dairy products by the Armed Services.